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I was talking about attribution, not obscure (apparently standard in some languages, but not in English) quote styles. Attribution (including signatures) is alw

• wwalexander 3y ago
  I don’t know what you mean by “obscure quote styles”. Did you read the link? You’ll see that it includes > Em-dash, an alternative to the quotation dash You confidently asserted the em-dash as the correct choice for quotation attribution which, if not outright incorrect, is certainly not the most or the only canonical choice. Nothing obscure in style about it!
  • LegionMammal978 3y ago
    The point is that a "quotation dash" (i.e., a dash that precedes a quotation, used in place of or accompanying quotation marks in many languages, as your link explains) is not the same thing as the dash used for quotation attributions. An em-dash is an alternative to a proper quotation dash when used to precede a quotation, but is generally itself considered the proper dash for attribution [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Attribution_of_quote_source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Attribution_of_quote_sour...
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    • wwalexander 3y ago
      I stand corrected!